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Life 8 - Sorie K and the MDGs
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Musician Sorie Kondi, blind from birth, has been called Sierra Leone's Stevie Wonder, but he's still trying to make it as a world musician. Sorie worries about the future of his 14-year-old daughter, Zeinab. He manages to make enough as a busker to pay for her education, but keeping Zeinab out of trouble is more difficult. She lives with her cousins, who have all had to leave school early because of pregnancy. Life asked Sorie to help us make a road movie looking at what's happening with girls' education around the country 10 years after civil war.
'There is a continuous challenge of trying to strike a balance in the film[s]...[The films] can be used successfully in stimulating a discussion amongst the youth about the negative aspects of such a life as well as an exploration of alternatives.' Teboho Moja, Clinical Professor of Higher Education, New York University
Citation
Main credits
Gabbay, Alex (Director)
Gabbay, Alex (Cinematographer)
Gabbay, Alex (Film editor)
Kondi, Sorie (Interviewee)
Bradshaw, Steve (Narrator)
Other credits
Music, Sorie Kondi/Earth CDs; translators, Fadiru Koroma, Andrew Kamara, Chani Wates.
Distributor subjects
African Studies; Anthropology; At-risk Youth; Developing World; Education; Gender Studies; Millennium Development Goals; Poverty; Sociology; Women's StudiesKeywords
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Progress and development can
be measured and monitored.
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That was the idea behind the millennium development
goals. But often it\'s people on the streets
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who can really tell the difference.
Especially those who love to listen
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and then tell you about
it or even sing about it.
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[music]
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[non-English narration]
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Singing in Sierra Leone. Sometimes
it\'s to help work along,
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sometimes it\'s the
soundtrack to a lazy day.
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But sometimes it\'s a story.
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[music]
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Sorie Kondi(ph), Sierra Leone\'s
steady wonder is on iTunes
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and YouTube but still struggling
to make it. Foreign acclaim
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does not pay his bills. Sorie
pays eight dollars a month rent
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by basking the streets of the
capital Freetown. His wife Sally
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is also blind. She makes
and sell soap to help out.
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One day, sometime good at.
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[music]
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Sorie Kondi takes his name from
his instrument, the Kondi,
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a handmade phone piano
with an electronic twist.
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[sil.]
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Basking the streets also helps
keep his daughter at school.
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[music]
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Getting 14 year old (inaudible)
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through school is a big struggle for Sorie.
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Primary education is free in Sierra
Leone but there are extra fees
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demanded by poorly paid
teachers and other costs.
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I\'m not feeling good. The school charges
haven\'t been paid. They\'ve not paid what?
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School charges. School fees. They have
not yet been paid. How much? 32,000.
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32,000. Okay, finish.
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Sport is on Monday. I haven\'t got
to sports till. Play sports?
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Yes, Monday. Monday. The (inaudible)
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is 10,000. 10,000.
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Somehow Sorie
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always finds the money.
But keeping (inaudible)
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out of trouble is more difficult.
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When did you get pregnant?
Zynap(ph) lives with her cousins
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who have all left school
early because of pregnancy.
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Zynap is not safe. Look at
what\'s happening in this house.
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Her cousins only made it up
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to form two and got pregnant.
So I do worry that some day
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it would happen to her. You see.
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Sorie Kondi and the MDGs,
millennium development goals
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not an RNB band but goals set by world
leaders meeting at the U.N. in 2000.
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Zynap\'s future depends
on two of these goals.
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Education and women\'s empowerment. We ask
Sorie Kondi to help us make a road movie
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looking at what\'s happening with girls\'
education around the country ten years
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after civil war.
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Sorie\'s trusted aide is
23 year old (inaudible)
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who helped with production
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on Sorie\'s first album. There are
problems with Sorie\'s old amplifier.
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But Fodies(ph) found him a
brand-new Chinese made amp.
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[sil.]
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Fodie lost both of his parents in the civil war. He
survived as a street kid till Jesuits took him in
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and put him through primary
and secondary education.
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Now, he\'s saving to go to university, an education
success story maybe a role model for Zynap.
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[music]
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Sorie Kondi has barely ventured out of
Freetown since the civil war started
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18 years ago. It\'s a two
week trip around the country
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just Sorie Fodie P, (inaudible)
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and whoever else they pick up on the way.
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(inaudible)
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,
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He\'s a primary schoolteacher. What\'s
making him angry goes to teachers.
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It\'s estimated the
government has been paying
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the salaries of 30,000 phantom teachers
who don\'t exist. The money going,
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who knows where. Those teachers
are a drain on the budget
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but the government has now started a role call of teachers
to make sure the money is spent properly. (inaudible)
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says it\'s an urgent problem.
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Teachers do retire.
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Some die. What (inaudible)
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,
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They still maintain their names
in the register. The money goes
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in their pocket forgetting the fact that they need to delete those
names from the register. So there are ghost teachers all over.
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Sierra Leone spends almost 4%
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of its GDP on education. Sorie is beginning to
wonder how much of it finds its way to the children.
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This (inaudible)
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not used to touring anymore.
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I\'ll stop now. I need to rest.
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[sil.]
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Even though Sorie\'s village is just
a few hours away from Freetown,
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it\'s three years since he\'s been back.
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What\'s better? Bring up your
daughter in Freetown or here?
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Well,
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I prefer bringing up my
daughter in Freetown.
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Even though there are so many
problems for her in Freetown,
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at least, as I am there,
because that\'s where I live.
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I can always solve them.
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[sil.]
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One of the problems for
girls in rural areas
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is the long walks to school.
But they\'re lucky.
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Over a quarter of a million children don\'t go to
primary school at all and most of them are girls.
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[sil.]
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Sorie Kondi\'s village
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is Mangay Loko.
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[non-English narration]
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Okay, this is my father.
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[music]
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Back home,
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Sorie is a success story.
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His old friend Hassan used
to be a small time trader.
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Hassan did pass the school exams
but no more. Now he\'s a UU.
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Unqualified, untrained teacher.
The villagers pay him
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what they can when they can, offer is not much.
Almost half of Sierra Leone\'s teachers are UUs
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and often have second jobs to survive.
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No repairs have been done to the
school buildings since 1976.
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[non-English narration]
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What Sorie learns
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here has little incentive for Hassan to train as a
teacher. There just aren\'t enough well paid jobs
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although the government is
reviewing teachers pay.
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Three years ago, Hassan was
accepted into a training program.
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He has the letter. He\'s just waiting for
confirmation of funding. Unfortunately,
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he\'s been waiting three years.
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Since I applied, I got this acceptance
letter. It\'s been about three years.
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It\'s to go to the training college
to get qualified as a teacher.
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I didn\'t get an answer.
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I am trained that we get
development in our village.
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I pray that with education,
things will be better for you.
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All of you.
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So not must encouragement
from Sorie\'s home village.
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He\'s starting to think there
are no easy solutions.
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I want one day to grow up
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because Sierra Leone is not easy.
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One day, if I go abroad I\'ll be happy.
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I want to do something
proper for Sierra Leone.
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[music]
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We had stories of schools down the road.
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Sorie is off to learn more.
On the way, Mohammed.
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He\'s a motor bike taxi driver and former
student of one of the oldest schools
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in Sierra Leone. They are all
on their way to Mateboi.
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There are
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no road signs.
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But the driver does have
an escort of sorts.
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The school here has an impressive list
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of former pupils including
some major public figures.
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Sorie Kondi wants to put on a performance
but the kids get their first.
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[music]
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Emma lives in Freetown.
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Pre-primary education
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has seen a huge increase in pupils here.
It\'s up by half.
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Now the school has 425 students
but only five teachers
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and three classrooms.
If you could see them,
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you would see that the children
are having difficulties.
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They have no desks and have to put
the books on their laps to write.
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Half the classes are under mango trees.
There are just not enough buildings.
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So no benches then. They
do have benches to sit on
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but don\'t have anything to write on. So
what about the school\'s distinguished
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all boy network. Sorie
asks the obvious question.
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Mr. Headmaster, these people in high places
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so what have they done to help the school?
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These people, these people have not made any
effort to move us from under the mango tree.
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That is why we are still under the
mango tree. A platform the government,
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it\'s up to the local people
to move these children.
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I had a better education and because
we had the facilities in school,
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we had enough desk to write on. These
days, children use their lap to write on.
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That doesn\'t help their writing skills.
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When the rains come, the problems really
start. Children from the mango tree classrooms
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pile into the school building classrooms
and the entire school comes to a halt.
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For nine year old Fatema that means
losing up to 40 days a year of school.
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When I come to school in the morning,
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and it rains heavily, my books and
uniform get completely soaked.
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[music]
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As Sorie leaves (inaudible)
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of buildings.
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A reminder of civil war. Over
1200 schools were destroyed.
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[music]
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And in contrast, the new
roads have reconstruction
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which takes us to Koidu, the
center of blood diamonds.
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Koidi is keeping up with the news.
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He\'s a glutton for knowledge.
There is money around here
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and money can be a problem as
Sorie\'s next encounter shows.
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Sia Elizabeth Tongu(ph)
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belongs to a woman\'s group which
campaigns against teenage marriage.
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[non-English narration]
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How is Kono? Fine. How is
the woman\'s group doing?
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The group is doing fine. It is doing fine.
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Yes.
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Young girls face a lot of challenges.
They\'re concerned about teenage marriages,
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early marriages with the Mafia.
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Umm… people with money will lure them out
of school. It still happens and in fact,
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I have a secondary school I
talked to the institute.
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What we do is we call the parents to
meetings so we can all deliberate together
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and see how we can stop all
of these, these children.
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I mean, imagine babies having babies.
It\'s, it\'s really a serious problem
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and then also they drop out of school because they,
they cannot continue with school once they get married
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and get stuck in this marital affairs.
In fact, the young boys
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in school are now pregnating more girls
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than the older men. So that
too is a serious problem
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in the community. There
is a law that schoolboys
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who make girls pregnant must stay
away from school while the girls do.
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And the government is planning to help
girls by adding more female teachers.
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But there are no easy solutions.
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Mariamma(ph) didn\'t get a chance to finish her
schooling. At 16, her parents wanted to marry her off
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to an older man. She ran away but
at the end, she did marry him
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and have three kids. Like many girls in
Sierra Leone, Mariaama was married before
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she was 18 which is illegal here.
Now, ten years on,
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she\'s been divorced and her husband has
claimed back the bride money and expenses
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from her family. Seeing as your father,
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your parents were the ones
who arranged your marriage.
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They should have helped you out.
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Not left you to subject all out alone.
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Why when bad things happen,
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do they leave you to
fend for yourself? Why?
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I don\'t know.
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[music]
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Back on the road, teenage pregnancy
Sorie has heard nothing yet.
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[music]
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16 year old Mami Musa(ph)
her mother and stepfather
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need a lift back to their village.
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Do you go to school? Yeah.
What form are you? Form three.
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Form three. Do you know about
girls who get pregnant at school?
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Mm-hmm. You just started school,
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how many kids of pregnancy do you know of?
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Don\'t be shy.
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Don\'t be shy. Answer me. Can you
hear me but you\'re not answering.
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Yes, I can hear you. Yes.
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She just started school. How many
kids of pregnancy do you know of?
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Many. Well, how many?
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More than 40. 50.
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Are these kids, you really know? I
don\'t want you to lie? It\'s not a lie.
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[sil.]
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Kenema the economic heart
of eastern Sierra Leone,
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the country\'s diamond trading center.
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[non-English narration]
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Juliette is a primary schoolteacher,
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volunteer radio journalist
and a single mother.
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[music]
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Juliette runs a youth program and opens
the phone lines every Saturday morning.
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I most of the time try an open phone line.
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I ask people to contribute where they ask
questions about the teenage pregnancy
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and most questions that\'s
used to come to our studio
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whenever I\'m presenting this program
people say uh… the, the teenagers
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themselves are responsible, you know,
for their problems they usually face.
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That\'s umm… they don\'t listen to their parents.
They always abscond home. When they ask,
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they ask to go to school.
They skip from school.
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The ones who live with all opportunities,
so most of the time, the (inaudible)
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, goods of the street
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and just live their own life.
I blame the parents.
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The guardians blame the teenagers
themselves and now blame
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also the schools that this
teenager is attending.
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We\'re on our way to Tiwai island,
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Sierra Leone\'s river
island wildlife sanctuary.
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There is someone, who
wants to talk to Sorie.
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[music] s
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Momodu(ph) is a boat man
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transferring tourists to Tiwai island. He\'s spent a
lot of money on his daughter\'s secondary education.
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His daughter\'s
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belly business or pregnancy has been a disappointment
especially as it involved her teacher.
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I need
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to feel better of her first. Right
now, I\'m not happy with her.
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[sil.]
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That\'s how it is.
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The story behind my pregnancy is that I was
going to school and I suddenly get pregnant.
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I was in love with my teacher a long time.
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Since I was in form one.
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[non-English narration]
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He helped me pass my exams
00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.999
and paid for my practical
fees and other things.
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When I told him that I
was pregnant, he said,
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don\'t tell me that. He said, if
I was willing, he had the money
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so I could have an abortion. I said
no, because some friends have died
00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.999
because of abortion. I
prefer to give birth.
00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.999
When Millicent reported her story to the police,
she was told the teacher was already in custody
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on similar charges of sex with
a minor, another schoolgirl.
00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.999
Two weeks later Momodu, her father,
heard the teacher had been released
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and was back teaching at the school.
No one sure why.
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I feel bad for the father of the girl.
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I don\'t even know what to say. The
police and the school authorities
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ganged up against the
father to release this man.
00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:39.999
And the police must have taken a bribe.
I don\'t understand anything.
00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.999
Back to Freetown, where Fodie will be
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
helping Sorie record his new album. I
think education is very, very important.
00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
Because if it hadn\'t been for education,
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I would not be what I\'m today. Though the fact that I do
not have anything, nobody can come and fool me easily.
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I know all what is going on. Not only Sierra
Leone but in all the rest of the world.
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Well, if I have a daughter,
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I would make sure that I monitor her
properly. If she goes to school,
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I would make sure everyday that I
see how she\'s doing in school.
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.999
Whether she\'s always punctual, whether
she takes her class work seriously.
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There is a lot riding on Sorie
Kondi\'s new album. His career
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and Zynap\'s future.
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Zynap is my child. But she has
a mind of her own. Even though
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I really hope she finishes
her studies, it\'s up to her.
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I pray to God that she
finishes her education
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because I believe it will be good for her.
If I get money,
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I would send her to college.
If I get money,
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I believe God will provide.
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 27 minutes
Date: 2011
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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